The Skaggs-Files

Parents:

Father: William Lorenzo GRAVES b: 05 Sep 1818 in Clark Co., IN
Mother: Mary Ann MCKINLEY b: 11 Oct 1824 in Owens, Clark Co., IN

See:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1753502&id=I631685841

 

 

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1910 United States Federal Census

Name: George W Graves
Age in 1910: 63
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847
Birthplace: Indiana
Relation to Head of House: Head
Mother's Birth Place: Indiana
Spouse's Name: Ida B
Home in 1910: Palisade, Hitchcock, Nebraska
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Occupation: Has own income
Household Members: Name Age
George W Graves 63
Ida B Graves 44
Stella Graves 17
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1920 United States Federal Census

Name: George W Graves
Home in 1920: Precinct 1, Crowley, Colorado
Age: 73 years
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847
Birthplace: Indiana
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Ida B
Father's Birth Place: Indiana
Mother's Birth Place: Indiana
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Male
Home owned: Rent
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Image: 421
Occupation: Stock Man
Household Members: Name Age
George W Graves 73
Ida B Graves 53

Unice L Hiatt 14 Grand Daughter
Georgia Hiatt 12 Grand Daughter
Ethel M Hiatt 6 Grand Daughter
James L Hiatt 3 Grand Son

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George W. Graves

DIED IN COLORADO
The Graves brothers received the sad message Sunday that their brother, George W. Graves, had passed away at his home near Olney Springs, CO.
Goerge W. Graves was an early homesteader in Hayes County. Many friends and relatives were at the train Wednesday Maning when Mrs. Ida Graves came in with the remains.
Funeral services were held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rosmiller and were conducted by Rev. L. Terry of Wauneta.
Interment was in Palisade cmetery.
Mrs. Graves was accompanied to Palisade on this sad trip by her duaghter, Mrs. W. M. Prindle of Ordway, Colorado. The sympathy of the community goes out to the bereaved ones.
OBITUARY
Goerge W. Graves was born in Martinville, Indiana, on February 7, 1847 and moved with his parents to Wehonrstern Missouri when 10 years of age, and loter, in 1884, homesteaded in Hayes County, Nebraska. In 1885 he married Ida Oliver, to which union was born three daughters, Mrs. Bessie Hiatt, Mrs. Ollie Tridle, and Mrs. Estella Eagy.
Some five or six years ago he moved to Olvey, Colorado, he has since resided, and on August 31, 1924, passed to the Great Beyond.
Mr. Graves is survived by his widow and two daughters, Mrs. Bessie Hiatt having preceded him; he also has the following sisters and brothers living. Mrs. Sis McGowan of Bethany, MO.; Mrs. hannah Plank of Milborne, MO; Mrs. Ellen Wilson of Des Moines, IA and Eli, Bedford, Dock, and Scott Graves, all of this place and county.
The life lived by mr. Graves is the best tribute to his memory, he was a good neighbor and to help and make life easier and better for those whith whom he came in contact, and the seventy-seven years spent here by him were such, that his passing away is a community, as well as a family loss.
L. W. Terry, a life of Mr. Graves, came down from Wauneta to conduct the funeral services, which at the requrest of the friends were short and simple. One verse of Nearer My God to Thee wa sung, and after a brief prayer and a few fitting remarks, the remains were taken in charge by undertaker Hunt, and carefully laid to rest in the beautiful Palisade Cemetery by the side of the daughter that preceeded him.